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Book Jyl of Breyntfords Testament

Download or read book Jyl of Breyntfords Testament written by Robert Copland and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A bibliographical and critical Account of the rarest Books in the English Language

Download or read book A bibliographical and critical Account of the rarest Books in the English Language written by J. Payne Collier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Book Remains of the early popular poetry of England

Download or read book Remains of the early popular poetry of England written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

Download or read book Representing the Plague in Early Modern England written by Rebecca Totaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life.

Book Friar Bakon s Prophesie  a Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times  A D  1604

Download or read book Friar Bakon s Prophesie a Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times A D 1604 written by William Terilo (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  The Sins of Madame Eglentyne   and Other Essays on Chaucer

Download or read book The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Other Essays on Chaucer written by Richard Rex and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this single-author collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne, the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Richard Rex contends that how we think about Chaucer as a Christian depends largely on our interpretation of the Prioress's Tale, which in turn is linked to the brilliant portrait of Madame Eglentyne in the General Prologue.

Book Robert Copland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Copland
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1993-10-14
  • ISBN : 148758959X
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Robert Copland written by Robert Copland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-10-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Copland (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer, and his achievements were substantial. As a printer, he worked for and with Wynkyn de Worde, and his editions look back to the work of Caxton, de Worde's master, and forward, through the work of his successor William Copland, to the Elizabethan period. As a translator, he worked at a time when foreign languages were becoming increasingly necessary to the average Englishman. John Berdan calls Copland one of the main channels of French influence in England during this period. This book makes available the lively poetry of a pre-Renaissance world. In includes lyl of Braintfords Testament, a bequest of farts poem indebted to Chaucer's Summoner's Tale; The Seuen Sorowes That Women Haue When Theyr Husbandes Be Deade, in which conventional misogynist satire moves into psychological complexity; and Copland's most important work, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, an account of vagabond life outside the law in which thieves' cant first sees print. All Copland's work displays a singularly personal quality: as H.R. Plomer says, 'The voice of Robert Copland imparts life to the faint outline that we have of him.' Additional information is contained in the biographical material and notes and glossary. This is a valuable contribution to social history and will be of special interest to those concerned with the early history of English printing.

Book A Select Collection of Old English Plays

Download or read book A Select Collection of Old English Plays written by W. Hazlitt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Cambridge History of English Literature 3

Download or read book Cambridge History of English Literature 3 written by A. W. Ward and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venomous Tongues

Download or read book Venomous Tongues written by Sandy Bardsley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged as scolds, and local jurisdictions interpreted the label "scold" in a way that best fit their particular circumstances. Indeed, Bardsley demonstrates, this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century. The tongue, according to late medieval moralists, was a dangerous weapon that tempted people to sin. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics railed against blasphemers, liars, and slanderers, while village and town elites prosecuted those who abused officials or committed the newly devised offense of scolding. In courts, women in particular were prosecuted and punished for insulting others or talking too much in a public setting. In literature, both men and women were warned about women's propensity to gossip and quarrel, while characters such as Noah's Wife and the Wife of Bath demonstrate the development of a stereotypically garrulous woman. Visual representations, such as depictions of women gossiping in church, also reinforced the message that women's speech was likely to be disruptive and deviant.

Book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library  Reference Department  Prepared by A  Crestadoro   Vol  II  Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879    With the  Index of Names and Subjects

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library Reference Department Prepared by A Crestadoro Vol II Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879 With the Index of Names and Subjects written by Public Free Libraries (Manchester) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poems and Plays

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1821
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Poems and Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merry wives of Windsor   Troilus and Cressida

Download or read book Merry wives of Windsor Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright  Esq   of Northampton  Mass

Download or read book Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright Esq of Northampton Mass written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: